Clamp for holding fruit-jars.



No. 648,060. Patented Apr. 24, I900.

A. J. YOBTY. I CLAMP FOB HOLDING FRUIT JARS.

(Application filed Aug. 16 1899.) (No Model.)

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ANDREW J. YOR'TY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLAMP FOR HOLDING FRUIT-JARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 648,060, dated April 24, 1900.

Application filed August 16, 1899.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. YORTY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clamps for Holding Fruit- Jars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for holding fruit-jars and other vessels while they are being filled with boiling fruits and preserves, as also to assist in tightening or removing the caps or covers. 7

The invention consists in the novel details of construction hereinafter fully set forth, claimed, and illustrated by the accompanying specification and drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aside view of myinvention as attached to a fruit-jar. Fig. 2 is a plan from the top without the jar. of the same with a rubber fabric introduced between. the clamping-surface and the walls of a jar.

My device consists of a round flattened metallic spring-wire bent to form two or more coils, with ends projecting laterally to form handles which when drawn inward by the' hand close the inner circumference of the coils upon the outer walls of the jar, and by that means the jar is held or.lifted.

The wire I) is bent centrally into a coiled closed loop I) a little larger than the diameter of the central part of the vessel to be inclosed, leaving two outward-spreading ends biwhich Fig. 3 is a side view Serial No. 727,361. (No model.)

duced between the clamping-surface b and the walls of the jar a, so that additional purchase power may be obtained.

The mode of operation is as follows: The coils b are passed down over the jar a to about the center longitudinally of the vessel, and with the hand the handles 0 are drawn together, which causes the coils b to spring inward, so that their surfaces 11 are brought in a clamping position against the walls of the jar a, thereby holding it for the purposes needed. The same mode of operation is taken to screw on or remove the cap of a jar; The elasticity of the wire 19 carries the coils I) back to their former position as soon as the pressure .on the handles 0 is removed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a clamp, consisting of a flattened round wire, having an intermediate spring-coil and a pair of wooden handles, the inward pressure of which causes said coils to clutch the outer walls of a fruit-jar while filling with liquids substantially as specified.

ANDREW J. YORTY.

WVitnesses:

BERNARD SOLINsKY, E. G. SoLINsKY. 

